Episode 408: Zero Cotton with Advance Denim & Officina+39
This Blue Cast episode, Tuncay Kilickan talks with Advance Denim’s Michael Lam and Officina+39’s Andrea Venier about the TENCEL™ Zero Cotton collection.
Michael Lam has over 20 years’ experience in the denim industry. As the director of Advance Denim, he is responsible for connecting the denim business and cultures from the East to the West and working together with his team in Amsterdam and New York to exchange the denim innovations and concepts from different countries. Michael has been working on several sustainability and innovation projects, such as the BigBox Dyeing, BioBlue, Botanic Dyes and Cottonized Hemp, in the company. Those projects lead Advance Denim to be one of the most sustainable denim mills in the world, and this has been recognized by some well-known brands.
Michael also actively helps the young generation to understand more about the denim and jeans cultures by working together with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Hong Kong Design Institute to provide denim seminars and sponsorship to the students. Michael is one of the founding members of the Hong Kong Denim Festival, which is one of the most important denim events in Asia. He also works together with the Kingpins Show in United States and Denim by Premiere Vision in Europe for some events and seminars. By having this connection and experience, Michael always promotes the most innovative and sustainable denim technologies and cultures to the world.
Officina+39 is a team with common passion for textile world and fashion. It combines the experience of real professional people, devoted to anticipate, develop and support market demands related to the garment field. Officina+39’s real heritage is made up of 30 years of experience dedicated to research and chemical application in the textile sector, and present engagement to transmit it to a new generation of technicians.
This is a workshop of new ideas coordinated by qualified technicians, dedicated to application home lab, creating new “effects” and finishing. Officina+39 offers a selected range of chemical specialties, dyestuffs and pigments, in particular for denim and garment fields. Its mission is collaboration with customers to create new prototypes, supporting with selected eco-compatible chemical auxiliaries and innovative processes able to guarantee a possible and prompt industrial execution.
Intuition and approach to innovations—essential ingredients of Italian creativity—together with continuous research of materials and new processing technique, make Officina+39 the ideal partner in trend garments production.
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